The Constitution Of The United States Amendment 4.
The Right of people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath of affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Hunter S. Thompson was a Co-founder of The Fourh Amendment Foundation, it’s directors were as follows. Hal Haddon, Gerald Goldstein, Senator George McGovern, Michael Stepanian, Robert A. Price IV, Keith Stroup, Nancy Hollander, Michael Tigar, Howard Weitzman, Michael Kennedy, Jerry Lefcourt.
According to Hunter The Fourth Amendment foundation’s purpose “was to have a lawyer, a big one, available in all 50 states” also “to make it a fact in law that the state had to pay the legal expenses of anybody the state accused of a crime and failed to convict.”
The Foundation could quite possibly have grown from Hunter’s connection with “NORML” The National Organization For The Reform Of Marijunia Laws. Hunter was a panelist at NORML conferences and member of NORML’s Advisory Board. If I have my time line right, Hunter became involved with NORML through his association with Arti and Jim Mitchell (The Mitchell Brothers) through which he met Keith Stroup, the founder of NORML in 1970, and also a director of The Fourth Amendment Foundation.
The foundation and Hunter threw their weight behind the Lisl Auman case. The details of her case can be seen here http://www.lisl.com/facts.htm . Hunter worked tirelessly to help secure her release. From the day he received the letter she wrote to him from prison, he never stopped campaigning for her freedom. The sad thing is the Colorado Supreme Court overturned her case in March 2005, just a month after he died.
Possibly the last thing he ever typed was the word “Counselor” on stationary from The Fourth Amendment Foundation which was found in his typewriter at the scene of his death.
